5 April 2007Now that's proactiveIf you're traveling through the Philippines and find yourself visiting the South Cotabato Provincial Hospital in Koronadal City, you might want to curb that desire for a smoke, because the hospital staff will send you some place you might not want to go:
"The law requires us to designate a smoking area so we picked the morgue," said Dr. Edgardo Sandig, South Cotabato health officer.
Sandig said they decided to impose the rule because of the continued violation of the hospital's "no smoking" policy by visiting relatives or acquaintances of patients. (Via Interested-Participant.) Posted at 9:19 PM to Almost YogurtTrackBack: 9:58 PM, 6 April 2007 » Do Not Pass Go from Scribal Terror From the Philippines via Dustbury: Officials of the South Cotabato provincial hospital have issued a directive requiring persons who want to smoke to go straight to the hospital's morgue....[read more] |